page_title: Antarctic
section_title: Conservation
hierarchical_section_title: Antarctic / Conservation
caption_attribution_description: English: Mt Herschel (3335m asl) from Cape Hallet with Seabee Hook penguin colony in Foreground. Antarctica. Français&#160;: Le Mont Herschel (3335 m) vu du cap Hallet. Au premier plan, la manchotière de Seabee Hook. Antarctique. Une carte du lieu est disponible sur Wikipedia.
context_page_description: The Antarctic is a polar region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other island territories located on the Antarctic Plate or south of the Antarctic Convergence. The Antarctic region includes the ice shelves, waters, and all the island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence, a zone approximately 32 to 48 km wide varying in latitude seasonally. The region covers some 20 percent of the Southern Hemisphere, of which 5.5 percent is the surface area of the Antarctic continent itself. All of the land and ice shelves south of 60°S latitude are administered under the Antarctic Treaty System. Biogeographically, the Antarctic realm is one of eight biogeographic realms of the Earth's land surface.
context_section_description: The Antarctic hosts the world's largest protected area comprising 1.07 million km², the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protection Area created in 2012. The latter exceeds the surface area of another vast protected territory, the Greenland National Park’s 972,000 km². (While the Ross Sea Marine Protection Area established in 2016 is still larger at 1.55 million km², its protection is set to expire in 35 years.)
caption: Moubray Bay and Mount Herschel, Eastern Antarctica
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